"What was on Hannibal's mind as he drove his elephants over the Alps?
Looking good, apparently, because on Hannibal's head was a wig, which
he wore into battle to cover his lack of locks. Julius Caesar used
his chaplet for the same purpose, the comb-over having not yet been
discovered."
Jack Reed; Men Want to Look Good, Too; St. Petersburg Times (Florida);
Jan 28, 2001.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or
its officeholders. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)